Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
568-02-005 ISMRM Abstract

Characterization of the stability and imaging performance of a low-cost ultrasonic gradient driver

Primary: Physics & Engineering - Gradients
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Subsampling: Parallel imaging, compressed sensing and low-rank modeling
568-02-005 · System Imperfections and Field Monitoring · Wednesday, 13 May, 9:15 AM–10:10 AM · Digital Posters Row I
Keywords: Local Gradient Coils Ultrasonic Silent MRI Hardware Engineering Gradient amplifier
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Aniek Wigman1, Thomas Roos2,3,4, Daniel R Abraham5,6,7, Hong En Chew5, Edwin Versteeg 8
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2Department of Radiology and Oncology, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
3Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
4Department of Radiology, Centre for Image Sciences, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
5Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
6Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
7Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
8Computational Imaging Group for MRI Therapy & Diagnostics, Department of Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Presenting Author: Edwin Versteeg

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3. 3. McGrory M, Versteeg E, Siero JC, Klomp DW. A Novel PNS Measurement Setup For Body Gradient Coils At An Ultrasonic Driving Frequency Of 20kHz. In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM. ; 2023. p. 2876.
4. 4. Meng K, McGrory M, Klomp D, Siero J, van Riel E, Versteeg E. An Integrated Unipolar Ultrasonic Gradient for Mitigating PNS and aliasing in accelerated silent MRI. In: Proceedings of the 2025 annual ISMRM meeting. ; 2025.
5. 5. van Ieperen A, Tax C, Klomp DW, et al. Short-TE diffusion-MRI by combining strong gradients with ultrasonic readout. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of ISMRM. ; 2022. p. #1367.
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